The Singapore-Stanford Biodesign (SSB) Programme Office announced last night the graduation of its inaugural batch of Fellows. The four SSB Fellow Graduates are equipped with innovation and entrepreneurship skills to invent, develop and commercialise innovative medical devices to address present day healthcare needs. The event also unveiled the second batch of new Fellows awarded the 2012 SSB Fellowship. These four recipients will begin the first six-month curriculum of their one-year fellowship programme at Stanford University end of this year.

Jointly launched by A*STAR, EDB and Stanford University in January 2010, the SSB programme seeks to groom the next generation of Asian leaders in medical device innovation. Modelled after the Stanford Biodesign programme, Fellows work in multi-disciplinary teams (spanning fields ranging from medicine and engineering to business) to develop viable solutions for identified healthcare needs of Asia. This multidisciplinary approach that trains Fellows in the entire value chain of medical device innovation is in line with A*STAR's push to develop multi-disciplinary integrated research efforts to meet healthcare demands of the future.